Real Agriculture

APRIL 4, 2024

Research from Purdue University agronomy professor Shaun Casteel indicates that early sulphur applications broadcast pre-plant or right at planting can deliver a soybean yield bump in specific conditions.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 28, 2024

Soil tests are one tool for determining fertilizer needs of a particular field, but several other factors impact the overall productivity of any soil zone, regardless of nutrient level. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The N-P-K conversation – nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium – is the focus of most crop nutrient management discussions. But there’s another macronutrient that’s hitting the radar with greater frequency as farmers and agronomists pursue higher crop yields.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Soil type, water availability, hybrid choice, plant population and crop nutrients are just some of the factors growers have to consider when pursuing a high-yielding corn crop on their farm.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Micronutrients fertilizer are those essential elements required by plants in small quantities to encourage plant growth and also promote maximum yields thereby

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 2, 2024

Wheat is a crop that sets yield potential very early in the season, so it’s imperative that the crop get off to the best start possible. Once plant stands and tillers are off to the races, splitting nitrogen can manage risk and help reach full yield potential. What’s more, late N can also bump protein.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 1, 2023

Understanding each field’s soil is key to maximizing yield potential. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soil School, host Bernard Tobin catches up with Zettler at Luymes Farms at Moorefield, Read More Understanding each field’s soil is key to maximizing yield potential.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 16, 2024

Compacted soils restrict root growth, oxygen, and nutrient and water movement, ultimately restricting yield potential. Compacted soils restrict root growth, oxygen, and nutrient and water movement, ultimately restricting yield potential. What’s. Read More No ruts, no worries, right? What’s. Read More

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 26, 2024

Where is that line between feeding the crop the right amount of the yield-producing nutrient and wasting dollars on excess product? University of Guelph sustainable cropping systems professor Dr. Adrian Correndo says a lot of field trials and research brainpower has been invested in identifying an.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Corn growers often apply nitrogen later in the season to gain more control of the crop. At the V10 or V11 development stage, growers typically have a better understanding of how the crop is developing, its yield potential, the growing environment and what the market is willing to pay. There’s also logistics to consider —.

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Western FarmPress

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Yoders have been no-till for 30 years and started incorporating cover crops 10 years ago.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

There are more than a few seeding, fertilizing, and scouting questions to wade through in this week’s Wheat Pete’s Word podcast, and that’s exactly how host Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson likes it.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2024

Corn plants need boron throughout the growing season. The uptake curve for the micronutrient is pretty linear from emergence to black layer, but making boron available in the ear later in the season, where it plays an important role in sugar movement and developing kernels, can be difficult. The challenge, says AGRIS Co-operative senior agronomist.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Also in this edition: double crop beans yields, foggy mornings and farm safety, pet peeves, fungicide ROI, and more! Also in this edition: double crop beans yields, foggy mornings and farm safety, pet peeves, fungicide ROI, and more! Have a question you’d like.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 1, 2024

Proper staging is important for understanding how to scout and manage corn, whether for timing fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide or fungicide applications. It’s also critical for understanding plant development, and how stressors at different stages can affect results, including yield, cob size, and kernel weight.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Questions remain, however, on how to deploy these products, which include living organisms, bacteria, amino acids or plant extracts, in the pursuit of higher corn yields. Questions remain, however, on how to deploy these products, which include living organisms, bacteria, amino acids or plant extracts, in the pursuit of higher corn yields.

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Super Gro fertilizer is a powerful agricultural product designed to enhance crop yield and promote healthy plant growth. This fertilizer is formulated with a un

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Iowa farmers expect to harvest a good corn crop this fall but spring germination issues will likely keep it from topping 2023 crop yields, says Nutrien Ag Solutions crop consultant Jeff Hink. In this report from the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, Hink takes a look at how growers in the state are changing. Read More

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa. Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it. parasitism in major cereal crops for enhanced crop production and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Knowing your soil is critical to understanding a fields potential and setting realistic yield goals that make economic sense for the 2025 growing season.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and plenty of farmers have lots to be thankful for, including excellent soybean yields and lovely fall weather for wheat planting. Read More It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and plenty of farmers have lots to be thankful for, including excellent soybean yields and lovely fall weather for wheat planting.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For plants to thrive, they require a magic formula: water plus sunlight plus air plus fertilizer. But fertilizers—substances that make soil more fertile—are essential to plant health because not all soils are equally nutritious. In short: Fertilizer is plant food. All plants need fertilization.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Those healthy looking soybeans may be hiding a hunger for nitrogen that could deliver higher yields. The oilseed’s nitrogen needs have been much studied over the years with researchers generally agreeing higher rates of nitrogen don’t pay, but that may not be the case when growers push for higher yields. Read More

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Despite an extremely dry September that played havoc with plant establishment, the winter wheat crop across Ontario appears to be packing plenty of yield potential as it heads into the dormant winter months.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In August, Rich Earth released a Farmer Guide to Fertilizing with Urine , available for free on their website. Our hay yields have gone way up as a result [of the urine], said Kayan. The multi-year trials found that crops fertilized with human urine performed better than untreated control plots.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 23, 2024

Ontario research shows that by adding wheat to the rotation, growers see a five percent increase in corn yield and. Ontario research shows that by adding wheat to the rotation, growers see a five percent increase in corn yield and. Read More

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Those healthy looking soybeans may be hiding a hunger for nitrogen that could deliver higher yields. The oilseed’s nitrogen needs have been much studied over the years with researchers generally agreeing higher rates of nitrogen don’t pay, but that may not be the case when growers push for higher yields.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The University of Zurich reports that inoculating the soil with mycorrhizal fungi can help maintain or even improve yields without the use of additional fertilizers or pesticides. “The mycorrhizal fungi act as a kind of protective shield against pathogens in the soil that would weaken the plants.”

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a way to boost the soil quality in vineyards. Cover crops refer to vegetation planted in empty fields— covering the soil, get it?—at

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm. The annual crops and drainage tile started to create this leaky system.” Fertilizer as Poison The U.S. Those nitrates leak into aquifers.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Crop scientists know a lot more about nutrient uptake in corn and soybean than winter wheat. Read More Crop scientists know a lot more about nutrient uptake in corn and soybean than winter wheat. On this episode of the Wheat School, Johnson shares data from a new wheat study on nutrient uptake and.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Also in this edition: double crop beans yields, foggy mornings and farm safety, pet peeves, fungicide ROI, and more! Also in this edition: double crop beans yields, foggy mornings and farm safety, pet peeves, fungicide ROI, and more! The answer to that is in this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 20, 2024

If farm fields show a deficit, how much potash should be broadcast to maintain yield? If farm fields show a deficit, how much potash should be broadcast to maintain yield? Is that rate safe for the plant and economical for the grower? Is that rate safe for the plant and economical for the grower?

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Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Organic fertilizers such as manure, compost , and other organic amendments are valuable sources of nitrogen. However, unlike synthetic fertilizers that provide readily available nitrogen, the nitrogen in organic fertilizers is released gradually through biological processes.

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2024

In modern agricultural practices, mycorrhizal fungi are increasingly recognized for their role in enhancing plant health and soil fertility. These fungi form a symbiotic relationship with the roots of many crops, a relationship that is especially valuable for improving phosphate uptake.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s the last week of March but the weather has turned cool and more average for this time of year. That means there’s plenty of questions streaming in as farmers get ready to hit the fields. This week on Wheat Pete’s Word, host Peter Johnson has to make good on a bet, we learn about.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. It works as both a cover crop and forage for the cattle, and it’s helping Bedtka build up organic matter in his soil. Corn requires lots of nitrogen, and it’s by far the most commonly used fertilizer in the United States.

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